Jimmy Savile - Play It Safe: Children Can't Fly

The second episode of a series from the 1970s hosted by none other than beloved Yorkshire proto-chav, Jimmy Savile. It was called Play it Safe and used to be on Sunday, tea time, just before Songs of Praise and yep, there was some scary stuff on there. As far as possible the presentation was by interviews with parents and children who had had an actual accident, who spoke of their reactions and lessons they had learned. Most accidents Savile focussed on feature the phrase "permanent brain damage".

Category:

Education

Tags:

• Jimmy
• Savile
• Children
• Can't
• Fly
• 1970's
• Yorkshire
• Public
• Information
• Film
• Permanent
• Brain
• Damage
• Accident
• Play
• It
• Safe

[babymoondancer]

5:20 --- To paraphrase that crazy lady who tried to sue P. Diddy: "Jim'll broke my baby 2 legs!"

[AshtonArcher]

I had the book that went with this series - quite disturbing for a five year old!

[custardaghost]

The children aren't attempting to fly. They're topping themselves over the combined misery of growing up in some shithole in the 1980s, and the lifeform that was Jimmy Savile. They had a choice between a few seconds flying like Superman now, or trying to replicate same with the foil and brown a few years later.

And let's hope there is no heaven so they never got to find out why SirJim'llness was such a keen volunteer hospital mortuary porter.

[Fifty1stState]

Cheers Jim...

[TaTgurl1003]

i could f-fly if I had to.

[pmr1973]

This series is actually dated 1981 - good series, and still relevant today. There was a remake ten to fifteen years later, which was a bit more "in depth".

[Feisty1967]

This is totally crass coming from a man who hates children!!!!

[ade643]

Shit i remember this on schools telly when you were off ill proper blast from the past

[MrSyrett]

8:14 - its good to know medical science has come on since these days, and the Bic pen up the nose technique has now been abandoned.

[TheShepster80]

i see saville has been handy with the spray cans again 7:09 !!!! now then now then!!!!